TikTok might not see Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony, threatens to go dark in US on 19 January unless…

TikTok, the video-sharing platform with a staggering 170 million American users, is on the verge of going dark this Sunday, right the day before Donald Trump‘s inauguration ceremony, unless the administration steps in to offer critical assurances to service providers. The company’s announcement comes after a Supreme Court ruling upheld a law mandating that TikTok be sold off from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, by January 19. In a statement late Friday, TikTok warned that without a clear guarantee from the Biden administration that service…